Lazier magic of the devil drops.

Dried Lama fetuses, snake meat and dynamite-safety fuse: At the Witches Market in La Paz special ingredients to be the fate of customers to help jump. But since magic to work verkommt chord, a generational conflict splits the witch scene.
  It started with the devil drops. Then came the flight powder. Later met the allheilenden flowers from Brazil. Doña Ancelma had never heard anything from them, they knew neither the name nor the effect, she thought: Will probably some nonsense, like him quack in the world with. They decided, the trash is not incorporated into their range. Their growing authority over the age ensured that the other mother, around the Calle Santa Cruz herbs sold, these new-fangled nonsense refused.
But the devil drops sold well. It did not take long, because traders were flying from Lima love potions for sale, scented water, attracted the dollar slips, bath salts against the evil eye and the blessing of the seven Archangels in the form of soap. Doña Ancelma hardly recognize the neighborhood again.
Along Calle Santa Cruz, she saw devils everywhere now drops into the shops, the competition had to offer in luck once on bottled in honey poured love and success as tomorrow essence. When even perfumes came into range, which promised accepts women and men to stallions to make longed Doña Ancelma back to the time when the only miracle in these streets which had been nutmegs, which are specially from the remote Moluccas heranschaffte .
"Witches market call them our street today," she says. She sits in the twilight of her shop, an old woman in wide skirts, zerfurcht the face, hands like gnarled roots.
"I see around like a witch?" She asks.
Hairless dogs against gout
She works in this hole of a store, as long as they can remember, 837 Calle Melchor Jiménez, Old Town of La Paz, Bolivia. And they've never operated witchcraft, all the years that not a single day. The Doña Ancelma swears. Sure, it has forced births with a brew from the flowers of the bitter orange, which already. She has also with the hair on dogs of the Andes, the khala called, gout healed. And Pachamama, Mother Earth, with dried fetuses of llamas made submissive, this has also Doña Ancelma. But witchcraft? Never.
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She is now so old that even the date of her birthday in the fog of their memories blurred, so they are on days on which it feels like 73, also claimed, 73 to be opposed to the other 81 years old wants to be. Her daughter says, Doña Ancelma count 90 years. In the streets around the Calle Santa Cruz, they say, Doña Ancelma Góngora was the oldest on the market witches of La Paz
"It does not mean witches market," she says.
You stemmt from the stool, slides in the past Teekisten which they deem counter table and uses. How often has it now says: stores like this, where it from coca leaves snake meat until everything is what you need to live, have kindly chiflerías too hot. Witches say only the market potosínas and all those on their side.
"Everything has changed, as the Potosínas came," said Doña Ancelma from the depths of their shop. The bells of the nearby "sacred Rosary Church to" beat. Already nine. A man in speckigem jacket limps to Doña Ancelmas Laden over and tap his hat in greeting. Don Cipriano.
Fridays are particularly strong magic
It is three or maybe even two decades ago that the Potosínas appeared, the year of their arrival in the past is buried as many other details of events to which you are around the Calle Santa Cruz does not want to remember: the imposition of trade certificates for example. No, what year the Potosínas came, nobody knows more. But from the day they know. It was a Friday. Because Friday has Pachamama mouth open, they say, Friday is Mother Earth mild voted, then spells particularly strong impact, good as evil.
FOUND IN ... No 6/2008Magische GEO Special Places magazine content bestellenwww.geo-special.deAls the Potosínas came, she wore strange costumes, even their hats were not the things you decorous called in La Paz They were women from the province . They sat down on the streets, at the crossroads of Calle Santa Cruz with the Calle Linares and with the Illampu, even in the Sagárnaga they were, and it did not look as if it so soon fortzuziehen memories.
Day after day they spread their herbs on the pavement, and offered the best prices. A first impression of the new situation got the old merchant who began as the Potosínas, safety fuse of dynamite sticks to sell. They swore, the stabbing odor Lull reliable crying babies to sleep, and was the worst? it seemed to agree.
"Faster than you could say Amen, things had changed," says Doña Ancelma. They stake over with smoke resin bags, boxes with herbs, interspersed cans, boxes, Keksschachteln, filled with amazing things; knicknacks up shop under the blanket, the Doña Ancelma for the case vorhält, but that a customer mule whip or an ocelot the bellows should require .
The Potosínas learned the trade quickly. Marriage is stocked, they had stalls along the Calle Santa Cruz rented. One day were then drops because the devil? a tincture, the men allegedly appetite for consuming alcohol. Wives bought series. Thus grew the business. The Potosínas had a much violence as the only novelty introduced vicious drop: competition.